Thoroughly edited to form a student-friendly text, this book brings together specially commissioned chapters by leading authorities, offering up-to-the minute coverage of key institutions and policies. - Съдържа: Introduction / Maria Green Cowles and Desmond Dinan -- 1. The road to enlargement / Desmond Dinan -- 2. Reconstituting Europe / Desmond Dinan -- 3. Europeanization and the member states / Robert Ladrech -- 4. Supporting the union? : Euroscepticism and the politics of European integration / Paul Taggart and Aleks Szczerbiak -- 5. The Euro and the European Central Bank / Amy Verdun -- 6. Completing the single market : the Lisbon strategy / Anthony Wallace -- 7. The common agricultural policy and cohesion / Desmond Dinan and Marios Cambis -- 8. Environmental policy : at a crossroads? / Andrea Lenschote -- 9. Immigration and asylum : a high politics agenda / Virginie Guiraudon -- 10. Police and judicial co-operation / John D. Occhipinti -- 11. The EU and world trade : Doha and beyond / Alasdair R. Young -- 12. The foreign and security policies of the European Union / Anand Menon -- 13. The European Union, the United States and Asia-Pacific : a new trilateralism? / Michael Smith -- 14. Policy towards the extended frontier : the Balkans and the newly independent states / John Van Oudenaren -- 15. Development policy : paradigm shifts and the 'normalization' of a privileged partnership? / Martin Holland -- 16. Developments in European integration theory : the EU as 'other' / Maria Green Cowles and Stephanie Curtis.*